Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Rutherford's deed can scarcely be considered eccentric, for his conviction that the sunny boulevards of San Diego are soon to be trod by men with the light of ages in their eyes is presumably shared by the 1,000,000 members of the International Bible Students Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, of both of which Judge Rutherford is President. In 34 nations these members have read his declarations as editor of both the Watch Tower and Golden Age magazines...
...this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout the Constitution in principle if not in actual deed...
...What words can we add to this great deed?" cried the Chairman of Jugoslavia's secretive Naroda Odbrana, a nationalist organization famed for desperate deeds, and in which Princip was a leader. "What shall we say of Princip? NOTHING! His glorious memory can be most highly honored by silence...
...Princip memorial suppressed, and when it leaked out commanded the Foreign Office to dismiss the Chief Censor. Frightened, stupid underlings at the Bureau of Censorship freely passed despatches telling how Dictator-King Alexander had almost succeeded in keeping the world ignorant that his people have glorified a deed doubly foul?for Assassin Princip slew not only the Heir of Austria but also His Royal Highness' morganatic wife, Sophie Countess Chotek, mother of two sons who still live in Austria, a daughter who lives in Czechoslovakia...
...that it has been obliterated, while the populace consider that the Government is pretty slick. But the new heroic statue would seem to be definitive, a proclamation to the world in marble that the end can justify the means, that the most dastardly of crimes can become a spotless deed...